Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …”, indicating that taking a relatively good position benefits people in the Chinese society. RD is also a pressing issue for China … reviews key measures of RD and empirical findings for China. I also discuss some of the most pressing policy issues with …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the … debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the … Minimum Living Standard Assistance (MLSA) or Dibao in China. Using newly available data on MLSA spending and a unique panel …